Prizes and awards

On 27 June, David Le Touzé, Centrale Nantes Professor and LHEEA researcher, received the Joe Monaghan prize, for the second time running, alongside his Italian co-authors from INSEAN, a research institute of the CNR (National Research Council of Italy).

Centrale Nantes is playing host to the 24th edition of the Inter-Ecoles Centrale Research Symposium (CRIEC) for the week commencing Monday 25th June 2018. The four-day event gives 100 PhD students from the five Ecoles Centrale, (Centrale Supélec, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Nantes, Centrale Lille and Centrale Marseille), the opportunity to exchange views and present their research work during plenary sessions and oral presentations dealing with topics ranging from additive manufacturing, to marine renewable energies, or robotics etc.

Congratulations to the PhD student Tugdual LE NÉEL who, accompanied by Jean-Yves Hascoët, his thesis supervisor, and Pascal Mognol, co-thesis supervisor, received the Dick Aubin Distinguished Paper Award at the Rapid & TCT Conference on 23rd April 23rd in Texas. The jury considered his work on the combination of different materials to create a very promising binder injection mold to address some of the current challenges in traditional sand casting.

Prof. Ahmed LOUKILI, Centrale Nantes, was appointed member of the Board of Directors of the Ecole Française du Beton on November 27th.

Congratulations to Victor Contreau - newly graduated from the Centrale Nantes degree apprenticeship programme in public works and construction - winner of the 2017 Graduation Project Challenge run by Eurovia, a subsidiary of the Vinci group.

Congratulations to Marie Dalémat and Thomas Balutch, who received first and second best poster awards at the 10th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubbers (ECCMR), which was held in Munich from 29 to 31 August 2017.

Florent Laroche, lecturer and researcher at Centrale Nantes, has joined a prestigious circle of around 600 international manufacturing academics by becoming an associate member of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering).

Hermine TERTRAIS, PhD student at Centrale Nantes in the GeM - Institute for Research in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 51st International Microwave Power Institute (IMPI) Symposium held in Miami, from 20 to 22 June 2017.

Anass Cherki El Idrissi received the 'René Houpert' young researchers award at the 'Rencontres Annuelles Universitaires de Génie Civil' organised this year by the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering from 22 to 24 May in Nantes.

Having previously secured major ERC funding to undertake their research, Nicolas Moës (Dean of Research at Centrale Nantes) and researcher Gilles Marckmann have been awarded a grant of €150,000 to develop the industrial applications of their research.

The Floatgen project for the first offshore wind turbine in France, which is soon to be completed in the Port of Saint-Nazaire, received the “prix Energies Renouvelables” (Renewable Energies Award) for the 2017 Trophées de la Transition Energétique (Energy Transition Trophy) organised by L'Usine Nouvelle during a ceremony on Tuesday 16 May in the presence of Jean Jouzel, climatologist and former vice-president of the IPCC.

Sophie Sakka, lecturer at Centrale Nantes, was appointed a Knight of the French National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l'Ordre national du mérite) at the beginning of May 2017. Congratulations to our outstanding researcher and president of the Robots! association.

The Nantes-based digital initiative "Nantes 1900", to which Centrale Nantes contributed, has received a ‘Territoires innovants’ (Innovative areas) award from the Interconnectés Association.

Congratulations to Arvo KALDMÄE, former PhD student at Centrale Nantes at the doctoral school STIM, who has just received the first thesis prize from the Estonian Academy of Sciences for his thesis defended in June 2016.

Congratulations to PhD student Ali Nour Eddine winner of the "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Energy Recovery held in Malaysia in early December.

The 25th SAMPE France Technical Days were held on 17 & 18 November in Montargis and at the HUTCHINSON Research Centre. Congratulations to the team of six Centrale Nantes students, winners of the national Composite Bridge competition. This is the second win for Centrale Nantes since 2013.

A look back at the “Prix de l'ingénierie du futur” (Engineering of the future prize) on 19th October 2016. The “Ma Paille” (My Straw) Centrale Nantes student project team didn’t make it onto the podium, but the experience was very rewarding.

Congratulations to Sophie Sakka, Centrale Nantes researcher and professor, who was awarded the entrepreneurship prize for her Rob’autism project at this year’s edition of Digital Ouest, one of the key events of Nantes Digital Week.

Dr. Ahmed Z. Bendimerad, research engineer at Centrale Nantes, with the Edycem Industrial Chair, received the Best Short-Term Scientific Mission award on 24 August at the Technical University of Denmark.

The six edition of the bi-annual TRA (Transport Research Arena), dedicated to transport research in Europe, was held in Poland from 18th to 21st April 2016.